Improvement in attachments for carding-engines



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UNITED PATENT QFFI JAMES WEIGHT AND JACOB 0. SMITH, JR, OF JACKSON,TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR CARDlNG-ENGINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,834, dated July 11,1876; application filed May 1, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES WVRIGHT and JA0013 0. SMITH, J r., of Jackson, in the county of Madison and State ofTennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ClementAttachments for Oarding-Engines; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This improvement relates to that class of carding engines wherein afeeding apron is employed above the cylinder, and in which the variousparts are driven from the shaft of the main cylinder simultaneously bysimply shifting the lever without stopping or interfering with themotion of the main cylinder, as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed.

In the annexed drawings we have shown only as much of the machine as isnecessary to illustrate our invention, and in said drawings Figure 1 isa side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view of card-frame with feed-tableremoved, and Fig.3 is a plan view of feed-table.

A represents the card-frame. B is the main cylinder. 0 is the doffer. Eis the brush F, the feed -t able, and G the teed-apron, all constructedand operating in the usual manner. On one end of the main cylindershafta is a driving-pulley, D, with a pulley, D, attached to or formed withit. The pulley D is, by a twisted belt, I), connected with a pulley, d,on the shaft of the brush E. The other end of the main shaft a has apulley,f, connected, by a belt, 6,With a loose pulley, h, on the shaftof aroller, E. On this shaft is also a clutchpulley, i, connected, by abelt, k, with a pulley, m, mounted on a stud on the side of the frame.The pulley m has a pinion, 02, attached to it, which meshes with acog-wheel,1, on the shaft of the doft'er 0. On the other end of theshaft of the roller H is a pulley, 1), connected, by a belt, 1", with apulley, s, on the shaft of one of the feed-apron rollers, said rollersbeing on the opposite side connected by a belt, t. The clutch-pulley z.is moved to and from the pulley h by means of an arm, J, attached to arock shaft, K, which is held in suitable bearings on the side of theframe, and turned by a lever, L.

By the aid of the lever L, the clutch-pulley i is thrown in gear withthe pulley h, and then all the parts of the machine will be in motionbut, by throwing said clutch-pulley out of gear, they will all stopexcept the main cylinder, thus affording a simple and efl'ective meansfor connecting and disconnecting all the parts except the main cylinderwithout thense of an eccentric, and without moving any shaft.

We are aware of Patent No. 41,462, and do not claim anything showntherein; but,

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a carding-engine, the combination, with the system of belting andgearing herein described. of a single clutch-pulley and rockshaft, witharm and lever, whereby the various parts of the machine may be startedand stopped simultaneously by simply shifting the lever without stoppingor interfering with the motion of the main cylinder, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES WRIGHT. JACOB 0. SMITH, JR.

Witnesses as to JAMES WRIGHT:

H. A. Tooxna, J. R. HAZLEWOOD.

NVitnesses as to JACOB 0. SMITH, Jr.:

B. R. PERSON, E. A. CLARK.

